Breda, Netherlands
Sander Olislagers
Director of Product & Growth
I'm a product leader who turns company vision into outcome-driven roadmaps and builds teams that can actually deliver them. Over the past decade I've moved organizations from gut feeling to evidence-based decision making, most recently leading a 19-person Product & Growth organization to 28% YoY revenue growth and 29% gross-margin growth. I care as much about the health and autonomy of the team as I do about the numbers.
Personal introduction
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Currently Director of Product & Growth at Bambelo.
Recent writing
What I've been reading
Daily columnYour Product Backlog Is Hiding Unfinished Decisions
Product leaders should manage unresolved decisions with the same discipline as delivery work, including a deadline, an owner and a default outcome.
Daily columnEvidence Quality Belongs in the Product Budget
Product leaders should fund the systems that make results trustworthy, rather than treating measurement as a free by-product of shipping.
Daily columnDiscovery Is Incomplete Until Operations Can Survive the Product
Product discovery should test whether the company can operate a product at scale, not only whether customers want it and engineers can build it.